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Peso has announced the completion of its Pre-Seed funding round, led by Tether. Peso is a Bolivian fintech company that offers a USDT account integrating savings, spending, investing, and cross-border transfers. It connects to the Bolivian banking system through QR codes and the ACH payment network, supporting exchanges between stablecoins and local fiat currency. Peso has integrated USDT payments into the digital services platform Yango, allowing users to pay for food delivery orders directly within the app. The funds from this round will be used to expand Peso's local fiat on-ramp and off-ramp channels in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina, as well as to build a merchant-facing POS payment network and virtual account infrastructure.
According to the official announcement, HTX will open spot and grid trading for AXIS/USDT at 21:30 (UTC+8) on October 21. AXIS deposit services are now open, while withdrawal services will be available starting at 21:30 on October 22.
According to official announcements, Upbit will list AXIS/KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs.
According to official announcements, HTX has launched its Futures Copy Trading Challenge series. From now until 23:59 (UTC+8) on November 15, users can register for designated lead or copy trading challenges and unlock corresponding rewards upon meeting the requirements. Statistics are tracked and reset weekly, with traders and copiers eligible for up to 200 USDT in rewards each week.
According to official announcements, Huobi HTX launched MDT/USDT, JCT/USDT, and IBKR/USDT perpetual contracts on October 21, supporting leverage ranging from 1x to 20x for both long and short positions.
Bitget has launched perpetual stock futures for ELICE (Elice Inc.). The contract is settled in USDT and supports up to 20x leverage with 24/7 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 369 stock futures underlying assets.
The joint venture OKXICE, formed by cryptocurrency exchange OKX and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, disclosed in an updated announcement that it has received objection notices from 16 issuers, involving companies such as Alphabet, Microsoft, and Goldman Sachs.Andrew Cuomo, co-chairman of OKXICE and former Governor of New York, stated that these notices do not constitute objections, and that some companies simply want to observe how the tokenized stock model operates before making a decision, adding that he expects more companies to raise similar concerns.OKXICE's proposed platform plans to cover 62 companies listed on U.S. exchanges, of which about 25% have raised objections. The platform is intended to operate 24/7 through permissioned Uniswap v4 liquidity pools deployed on XLayer, with tokenized stocks paired respectively with Tether's USDt, Circle's USDC, or Global Dollar's USDG. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily reports: Stablecoin issuer Tether's investment arm Tether Capital has announced its participation in AI chip company Tenstorrent's $1.5 billion Series E funding round, valuing Tenstorrent at $6.2 billion post-funding. Tenstorrent, led by chip architect Jim Keller, primarily develops high-performance AI processors, server systems, and software, aiming to provide open AI computing infrastructure and reduce developers' reliance on the proprietary hardware and cloud services of a handful of large tech companies.Tenstorrent plans to use this round of funding to expand production and deployment of its Galaxy server systems, advance R&D in AI chips and CPU technology, and expand its global commercial operations. The company's technology already serves enterprises including Samsung and LG, with applications spanning large language models and video generation, among other fields.
According to an official announcement, Binance Futures will update the leverage and margin tiers for multiple USDⓈ-M perpetual contracts, with the update scheduled to be completed before 14:30 (UTC+8) on October 30, 2026. The contracts involved include APRUSDT, AIOUSDT, TRIAUSDT, WETUSDT, STBLUSDT, IDOLUSDT, GOATUSDT, QUSDT, B2USDT, AIAUSDT, CYSUSDT, DOSUSDT, TURTLEUSDT, AVAAIUSDT, and TRADOORUSDT. Existing positions opened before the update will be affected.
According to an official announcement, HTX listed the VICR/USDT perpetual contract on October 20, supporting 1x to 20x leverage for both long and short positions.
Bitget has launched perpetual contracts for 4 popular stocks: CSTOCK (Citibank), MDT (Medtronic), BP (BP), and VLO (Valero Energy). These contracts are settled in USDT and support up to 20x leverage and 24/7 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 368 stock contract underlying assets.
Odaily News: According to an official announcement, Bitget has listed 108 stock spot rTokens, including rTCEHY (Tencent Holdings ADR), rBYDDY (BYD ADR), rXIACY (Xiaomi Group ADR), and rVWAGY (Volkswagen ADR). As of now, the Bitget platform supports a total of 3,035 rTokens.It is reported that rTokens, identified by the letter "r" plus the stock ticker (e.g., rNVDA for Nvidia), are issued by Reality, a licensed RWA protocol under Bitget, through a partnership with compliant broker Alpaca to directly connect to global liquidity pools such as Nasdaq and the NYSE. Their features include: underlying assets backed by 1:1 reserves and custodied by licensed custodians, stock dividends distributed 1:1 in token form, support for synchronous mapping of corporate actions (stock splits and reverse splits, etc.), and holdings can serve as joint margin for the unified account and USDT-margined futures, allowing users to hold global stock assets while still managing funds flexibly.
Upbit Will List CT/KRW, BTC, and USDT Trading Pairs
Bitget has launched 8 popular Taiwan-listed stock perpetual contracts, including TWTSM (TSMC), TWDELTA (Delta Electronics), TWASX (ASE Holdings), and TWUMC (UMC). These contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 20x leverage, and trade 24/7. As of now, Bitget has supported a total of 364 stock contract underlying assets.
Enterprise AI agent infrastructure company AIsa has announced the completion of a seed extension round, with stablecoin issuer Tether and HIVEN joining as strategic investors. This round brings its cumulative funding to over $9 million.Tether and HIVEN join the existing investor lineup that includes Alibaba, Tribe Capital, Sumitomo Corporation, Draper Associates, and Saison Capital. AIsa founder and CEO Jordan Liu stated that the company will build infrastructure to support global discovery, access, and payment for resources by AI agents.AIsa's network integrates resource discovery, access, and transactions, connecting enterprise AI agents with external data, AI search, models, APIs, software tools, and industry services, while providing permission management, usage metering, billing, and settlement. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily reports: Frgmnt co-founder and CEO Aurélien Roussel stated that stablecoins are shifting from DeFi tools to critical infrastructure for accessing US dollars, and the next phase of adoption will depend on making blockchain technology nearly invisible to end users.He noted that the 2023 bank failures demonstrated that fiat-collateralized stablecoins, despite being on-chain assets, still rely on the off-chain traditional banking system and cannot fully escape bank counterparty risk.Roussel stated that Tether maintains dominance in non-Western global trade through liquidity, exchange support, merchant acceptance, and distribution networks, while local regulatory frameworks such as MiCA are pushing issuers to build locally compliant infrastructure.He believes that Layer 2 networks have reduced stablecoin transaction costs to less than 1 cent, and issuer competition will shift toward distribution, liquidity, and financial services. Stablecoins will also expand from payment tools into programmable, yield-generating capital. CBDCs and private stablecoins are more likely to coexist. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Working Paper No. 1382, BIS economists Iñaki Aldasoro and Rashad Ahmed of the Andersen Centre for Financial and Economic Studies published a study examining whether stablecoins and bank deposits act as substitutes. Using U.S. weekly data from January 2019 through June 2025, the study applies the local projection method to estimate how stablecoin market capitalization responds to changes in deposit interest rates. The results indicate that rising deposit interest rates forecast a deceleration in stablecoin growth. In the context of an average ten-week stablecoin growth of 15%, OLS estimates indicate that each 1-basis-point increase in deposit rates reduces the growth rate by approximately 3 percentage points, bringing it down to around 12%. By leveraging the nonlinear dynamic where bank deposit pricing becomes more responsive once the federal funds rate surpasses approximately 3% as an instrumental variable, the estimated effect expands to roughly 9 percentage points, pushing the growth rate down to about 6%. Placebo tests on non-stablecoin cryptocurrency assets reveal no comparable effects.
According to CryptoSlate, Microsoft and the cybersecurity organization Health-ISAC have obtained a U.S. court order to seize and redirect the domains supporting three services: YAM Store, CoGUI, and Iron Man. These three services sell stolen accounts and phishing tools to fraudsters. Since January this year, they have assisted in sending over 1 billion phishing messages, targeting more than 75,000 institutions across over 150 countries, generating tens of millions of dollars in revenue for operators. Microsoft has disabled more than 20,000 accounts associated with YAM Store and continues to block over 100,000 spoofing and fraudulent domains. According to Microsoft's investigation, these services accept payments in USDT (Tron network) and ETH, with Cloudflare noting that buyers can also pay using USDC. Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs assisted investigators in locating and freezing related assets, though the frozen amount was not disclosed.
According to Metis official (@MetisL2), Metis Andromeda will implement two adjustments in October: ceasing support for Stargate on October 23, with LayerZero V1-related routes required to be disabled by that date; and starting October 30, LayerZero Labs' DVN (Decentralized Validator Network) and Executor will no longer provide services to Metis. Additionally, Stargate V1 pools will be shut down across all chains on December 15. The official statement indicates that most holders do not need to take any action. m.USDC, m.USDT, WETH, and METIS are issued via the Metis native cross-chain bridge and are unrelated to Stargate; minting and redemptions will proceed as usual, while the Ethereum ↔ Metis native cross-chain bridge remains unaffected. Users providing liquidity to Stargate pools on Metis must withdraw their positions before October 23. If staked, assets must first be unstaked, after which users can select the Metis Andromeda network in the Stargate application to withdraw.
Bybit today listed the Neosoul (DNA/USDT) perpetual contract, offering up to 20x leverage.